Sway on Laptop

Quq's guide for installing Alpine with Sway, for latitude 7370.

Download Alpine Linux, verify checksum then

 dd if=alpine-extended.iso of=/dev/sdb

Known issues: screen sharing appears to be broken.

More details forth-coming.

Press f12 at boot to enter Setup, wipe disk under Maintenance>Data Wipe. Check Wipe on Next Boot check box. Exit.

Plug in external storage device with alpine extended on it. Let it boot.

Login as root. There is no password.

Set up internet connection

 # -r is needed for starting the network after configuration
 setup-interfaces -r

 Initialize: wlan0
 Enter SSID: my net
 Password, DHCP.

Set up SSH server:

  setup-sshd
  # example:
  ssh server:        openssh
  allow root:        "prohibit-password" or "yes"
  ssh key:           "none" or "<public key>"

Configurations set here will be copied verbatim to the installed system.

Set root password or /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Choose a strong root password, as it will be copied to the installed system. However, authorized_keys is not copied.

Set up time:

 setup-ntp chrony

Set up repos:

 setup-apkrepos -c
  # show mirror list, then select geographically nearest mirror
  # -c argument enables community repo

Install encrypted:

 setup-disk -v -e -m sys -k edge -s 0 /dev/sda

Exit chroot and power off:

 exit
 poweroff